Children Pledge Allegiance to the Flag in San Francisco, California, at Raphael Weill Public School. Children in families of Japanese ancestry were evacuated with their parents and will be housed for the duration in War Relocation Authority centers...

Japanese-Americans are inspected as they board a train in Woodland CA bound for an assembly center in Merced. They would later be sent to a larger camp further inland. This picture by Dorothea Lange was done for the War Relocation Authority. Lange...

Ben Kuroki at a dinner held in his honor at the Heart Mountain Wyoming relocation center, which held 11,000 people of Japanese descent. Ben Kuroki, born Hershey, NE Army Air Forces Technical Sergeant 93rd Bombardment

Ben Kuroki, born Hershey, NE Army Air Forces Technical Sergeant 93rd Bombardment Group

Ben Kuroki poses with some internees at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Kuroki was not only the first Nisei war hero, but was their biggest celebrity at that time thanks to continuing public relations work by the Office of War Information and...